(n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(2) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(3) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
(4) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(5) We don't want to harm ourselves; we don't want suffering; we don't want hardship; we don't accept difficulty and disappointment.
(6) Woman at centre of South Korean row says she 'deserves death' Read more Presidential spokesman Jung Youn-kuk said: “The Blue House named Kim as the right person to lead the cabinet for the country’s future and to overcome current hardships.” Yim Jong-yong, the Financial Services Commission chairman, was named the new finance minister and deputy prime minister.
(7) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
(8) There will be a hardship waiver for those individuals who still cannot afford coverage, and 95% of all small businesses, because of their size and narrow profit margin, would be exempt from these requirements.
(9) For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life.
(10) He was only four-years-old then, way too young to understand the hardships of life.
(11) But take back the initiative – because we've seen what happens when we let politicians take sole responsibility for how we organise our society: it's resulted in profound economic failure and material hardship.
(12) When combined with economic hardship, this loss makes the jobless more likely to suffer depression and even to take their own lives, as starkly shown by Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler in The Body Economic .
(13) The intimacy between community members and the doctor's own friendships with families, the distance to specialized services and the hardship travel might cause for patients, the economic risks in treating indigents in an already financially strapped small facility, and the physician's role as a citizen as well as health care provider are factors that cannot be ignored in treatment decisions.
(14) Already, 34 families have been given emergency hardship grants totalling more than £23,000, as the county offers them a lifeline.
(15) Is it hopelessly old fart-ish to hope exposure that to the horrors described by Buergenthal will remind all of us of the piffling nature of our next household conflagration about who gets to wear which pair of jeans, or whether homework on the weekend really constitutes a hardship – or even, somehow, temper the demand for new electronic equipment?
(16) Others argue that younger people are less used to dealing with hardship than their parents' generation and lack the resilience to cope with problems.
(17) I understood why our claims history had come back to bite us but still complained that, in these times of hardship, paying nearly £9 more each month was too much.
(18) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
(19) Despite years of violence, hardship and bitterly disputed votes, the hopeful mood suggested many feel change is finally within their grasp.
(20) Data on the economic status, number of rooms per household, number of persons per household, type of water supply, and mode of excreta disposal revealed that the majority of the population surveyed lived with economic hardship, overcrowding and poor hygiene.
Quandary
Definition:
(n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
(v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
(2) On occasions, they result in some diagnostic and therapeutic quandaries.
(3) 12.06pm BST Our own Dan Lucas was first to answer the refereeing quandary of the day, pointing out that Fifa's Law 17 says this: A goalkeeper who is injured while kicks are being taken from the penalty mark and is unable to continue as goalkeeper may be replaced by a named substitute provided his team has not used the maximum number of substitutes permitted under the competition rules.
(4) This, if anything, demonstrates the quandary and complexity of financial regulation.
(5) These two distinct paradigms lead to divergent treatment goals, which leaves the clinician in a quandary about how best to treat an individual who experiences a drinking problem.
(6) The quandary is a familiar one to every football fan who has watched his or her team score a goal while surrounded by rival supporters.
(7) "Egypt is in a quandary – it doesn't want to punish Gaza by closing the tunnels, but it needs to secure Sinai," said one western diplomat.
(8) The quandary of how to determine the value of human life and health is an essential problem but is certainly not straight forward.
(9) Some of the theoretical quandaries associated with the concept are briefly reviewed.
(10) Specific quandaries arise with involuntary hospitalization and treatment, and with evaluating patients for the courts.
(11) Since RecA protein lacks demonstrable helicase activity, the mechanism by which it pushes strand exchange through long heterologous inserts has been a quandary.
(12) This leaves Scotland's policymakers in something of a quandary: how can you tackle a problem when you don't know what is causing it?
(13) Practical solutions to the quandaries posed by the qualitative-quantitative dichotomy are explicated, with supporting methodological examples for nursing research studies.
(14) Such thirtysomething quandaries, of course, are found in greater-than-average concentration in Hollywood, where a good deal of the writers, directors and executives fall into this group; this is one reason why so many of these films have been produced.
(15) "The whole of the radio industry is in a bit of a quandary.
(16) This fixture has, in the Wenger era, been all about Arsenal's possession of the perfect answer to every quandary.
(17) One of the biggest quandaries among those who study radicalisation is identifying the point at which individuals move from "extremism" to "violent extremism".
(18) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(19) And therein lies a quandary: how can a casual who must only say yes ever enter into a real and honest dialogue with the permanent staff who employ them?
(20) Underlying it all, there's not only rightful compassion for victims, but also perhaps relief that we don't have to face such quandaries.